OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Design for the Painted Decorations of Three Panels” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:20 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Painted Decorations of Three Panels

Design for the Painted Decorations of Three Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1580-1590

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front secretary on stand (Secrètaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for Decorative Paneling, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Three Designs for Decorative Paneling

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of side chairs, by Thomas How

Pair of side chairs

Thomas How · ca. 1724–36

Public domainThe Met
Design for Blue and Silver Wall Decoration for the Royal Pavilion, Brighton., by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Blue and Silver Wall Decoration for the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802 or earlier

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Interior Wall Elevation, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Design for an Interior Wall Elevation

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1725–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Booklet with Scenes of the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300 (carving); ca. 1310–20 (painting)

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for the Painted Decoration of Ceilings, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketches for the Painted Decoration of Ceilings

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series, by Jean Démosthène Dugourc

Two panels from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series

Jean Démosthène Dugourc · ca. 1799

Public domainThe Met
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Claude-Charles Saunier

Commode

Claude-Charles Saunier · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Three Paneling Designs, by François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797

Three Paneling Designs

François Marie Isidore Queverdo, 1748 - 1797 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of Three Pilaster Strips, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration of Three Pilaster Strips

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789-1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Chitarman

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman · recto: dated 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall

Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eagle relief, by Toltec artist(s)

Eagle relief

Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for the South Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for the South Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1817

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Commode

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Wall Decoration, by Unknown, Southern German or Austrian

Design for a Painted Wall Decoration

Unknown, Southern German or Austrian · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50), by Hans Wagner the Elder

Box For Crossbow Bolts (Bolzenkasten), Probably Made for William IV, Duke of Bavaria (r. 1508–50)

Hans Wagner the Elder · dated 1539

Public domainThe Met
Decoration du Lambris vis-à-vis la Cheminée du Salon de Brunois, by Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783

Decoration du Lambris vis-à-vis la Cheminée du Salon de Brunois

Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783 · 1750–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 5661 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3021286 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 17:20 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.